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Updated Dilopho-taco truck

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I love dinosaurs as much as robots. It is very funny to me when ppl freak out about their childhood icons having feathers maybe.

But it is actually more boring if they are all just like Hollywood imagined.

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HAPPY (LATE) BIRTHDAY TO MEGALOSAURUS!!!! 200 years young

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some hazbin hotel redesigns I did a little while back

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david tennant character vs. weeping angels

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Gonna start postin here more often!

Results from the Paleostream! Left to right is Yangbeilong, Josephoartisgasia, Italophlebia and Tenontosaurus.

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In celebration of myself finishing Fionna and Cake, have a Lich drawn by me!

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ohh i love them

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Baru iylwenpeny

welcome to the world Baru iylwenpeny! congrats to Yates et. al., (2023) on the published description! gotta love all the AusPalaeo stuff happening recently

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she is beauty, she is grace; she has a gorgeous face ~

dolichovespula maculata (bald-faced hornet) that took a moment to groom herself as I was taking pictures. <3

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im like. desperately waiting to be studied by someone. anyone?

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Prehistoric Poetry 🩶🖤🦖🖤🩶

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'spinosaurids are the only semi-aquatic non-avian dinosaurs' do halszkaraptorines mean nothing to you. fool

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Utahraptor Ostrommaysorum is my second favorite dinosaur i think

i made these bc im obsessed with dinosaur horror and im still angry at jwd for not giving us shit like this

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When owls find their way onto isolated islands lacking any terrestrial predators, they have a tendency to take up that role for themselves – evolving longer legs and shorter wings, and specializing more towards hunting on foot. From New Zealand to Hawaii to the Caribbean to the Mediterranean to Macaronesia, leggy island ground-owls have independently happened over and over again in the last few million years—

—And, unfortunately, they've all also become victims of the Holocene extinction, their fragile island ecosystems too easily disrupted by human activity and the arrival of invasive species.

The São Miguel scops owl (Otus frutuosoi) was found only in the Azores on São Miguel Island. About 18cm tall (~7"), it was slightly smaller than its relative the Eurasian scops owl, with longer legs, a wider body, and much shorter wings.

Its wing proportions indicate it would have been a poor flyer, instead primarily hunting on foot in the dense laurisilva forests. Since there were no terrestrial mammals or reptiles on São Miguel at the time, its diet probably mainly consisted of insects and other invertebrates – and it would have in turn been the potential prey of larger predatory birds like buzzards and long-eared owls.

All currently known subfossil remains of the São Miguel scops owl date only from the Holocene, between about 50 BCE and 125 CE. It's likely that it was extinct by the 1400s, following the settlement of humans in the Azores, destruction of its forest habitat, and the introduction of rodents, cats, and weasels.

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Omnomnomnomn

I finally got some decent mangosteens, and knew I had to share some with Mercédès! I think she liked it

(Scolopendra hainanum)

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So, I’ve come here from dead bird app and uh, very lost, don’t understand this format 😭

Anyways have dinosaur!

#lost #help #dinosaur #paleoart